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Peter Brook
18 - 31 October 2023
Opening Reception: 19th of October, 6 - 8 pm
West End Art Space
Brook’s current body of paintings draws on visual languages found in our online and urban environments. They are a response to both the pervasive digital algorithms and predictive systems that influence our current Western social and economic cultures, and the ordered abstract patterns found in our contemporary urban environment.
Backlit screens awash with a hyper-alternate reality of digital codes and structures, coupled with observations of light falling on patterns and surfaces in the built environment, provide Brook with a compositional framework for a developing exploration of the visual perception of colour.
The visual syntax of predictive digital systems and patterns from the urban environment are a vehicle for what Brook is calling ‘chromo plasticity’ where respective appearances of colour are influenced by the neighbouring colours, yielding both chromatic harmony and contrast.
Artist Biography:
‘My primary means of making sense of where I am physically, and how I am connected with my location, and others, is through painting. I am particularly interested in the meeting point of the handmade, digital, analogue and spiritual in our lives.’
Brook’s current body of paintings draws on visual languages found in our online and urban environments. They are a response to both the pervasive digital algorithms and predictive systems that influence our current Western social and economic cultures, and the ordered abstract patterns found in contemporary architecture.
Backlit screens awash with a hyper-alternate reality of digital codes and structures, coupled with observations of light falling on patterns and surfaces in the built environment provide the framework for Brook as he makes this ongoing exploration of the interaction and response of colour.
Following his graduation with a BA Fine Art from Victoria College, Brook has maintained a painting practice as well as working among remote communities in Papua New Guinea for over a decade. He continues to maintain connections with artists and communities in the Pacific.
After re-establishing a working studio practice at the Brewery Artist Lofts while studying in Los Angeles from 2013-2015, Brook has regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since returning to Australia.
His work is included in public and private collections in Australia, USA, Canada, Norway, Africa and Papua New Guinea.
